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Frederic Mitterrand Dies Aged 76

File photo dated February 18, 2011 of Frederic Mitterrand. - The nephew of former president François Mitterrand was a figure of television, cinema, and literature, and served in government under Nicolas Sarkozy. He died on March 21, at the age of 76. Photo by Patrick Davy/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frederic Mitterrand Dies Aged 76

File photo dated February 18, 2011 of Frederic Mitterrand. - The nephew of former president François Mitterrand was a figure of television, cinema, and literature, and served in government under Nicolas Sarkozy. He died on March 21, at the age of 76. Photo by Patrick Davy/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frederic Mitterrand Dies Aged 76

File photo dated February 18, 2011 of Frederic Mitterrand. - The nephew of former president François Mitterrand was a figure of television, cinema, and literature, and served in government under Nicolas Sarkozy. He died on March 21, at the age of 76. Photo by Patrick Davy/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frederic Mitterrand Dies Aged 76

File photo dated September 22, 2011 of Frederic Mitterrand. - The nephew of former president François Mitterrand was a figure of television, cinema, and literature, and served in government under Nicolas Sarkozy. He died on March 21, at the age of 76. Photo by Patrick Davy/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frederic Mitterrand Dies Aged 76

File photo dated September 22, 2011 of Frederic Mitterrand. - The nephew of former president François Mitterrand was a figure of television, cinema, and literature, and served in government under Nicolas Sarkozy. He died on March 21, at the age of 76. Photo by Patrick Davy/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frederic Mitterrand Dies Aged 76

File photo dated July 11, 2011 of Frederic Mitterrand and Liza Minnelli. - The nephew of former president François Mitterrand was a figure of television, cinema, and literature, and served in government under Nicolas Sarkozy. He died on March 21, at the age of 76. Photo by Patrick Davy/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frederic Mitterrand Dies Aged 76

File photo dated February 18, 2011 of Frederic Mitterrand. - The nephew of former president François Mitterrand was a figure of television, cinema, and literature, and served in government under Nicolas Sarkozy. He died on March 21, at the age of 76. Photo by Patrick Davy/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frederic Mitterrand Dies Aged 76

File photo dated April 7, 2011 of Frederic Mitterand at the Pantheon in Paris during a conference. - The nephew of former president François Mitterrand was a figure of television, cinema, and literature, and served in government under Nicolas Sarkozy. He died on March 21, at the age of 76. Photo by Patrice Pierrot/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-CHENGDU-FRANCE-MONTPELLIER-FRIENDSHIP (CN)

(230721) -- BEIJING, July 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- The Sun and Immortal Bird Gold Ornament is seen on the dome of the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu of southwest China's Sichuan Province on March 10, 2022. The Chengdu Universiade is just around the corner, and college athletes from all over the world will gather in Chengdu to strive for their dreams. Chengdu has many sister cities around the world. In 1981, Chengdu and Montpellier of France became the first pair of sister cities of the two countries. In 2011, the Montpellier Chengdu Primary School and the Chengdu Montpellier Primary School were built in Montpellier and Chengdu respectively to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of sister cities relationship between the two cities. (Photo by Zhang Yan/Xinhua)

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Russian expat turns passion for surfing into business in China

STORY: Russian expat turns passion for surfing into business in China DATELINE: March 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:09 LOCATION: HAIKOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Alexander Pantyukhin working in his company 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ALEXANDER PANTYUKHIN, Founder of Ananas Surf Company 3. various of people surfing in the sea of Hainan Province 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ALEXANDER PANTYUKHIN, Founder of Ananas Surf Company 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): ALEXANDER PANTYUKHIN, Founder of Ananas Surf Company 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): ALEXANDER PANTYUKHIN, Founder of Ananas Surf Company 7. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): ALEXANDER PANTYUKHIN, Founder of Ananas Surf Company STORYLINE: From catching waves to making waves, Alexander Pantyukhin, a Russian who came to south China's Hainan in 2011 has turned his passion for kite surfing into a business into the global market. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ALEXANDER PANTYUKHIN, Founder of Ananas Surf Company "My name is Alexander Pantyukhin and I come from Russia. Now I live

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Anti-nuclear power rally in Tokyo

A rally against nuclear power plants is held in Tokyo on March 21, 2023, with about 4,700 people from across the nation marching in the Shibuya area for the annual event that started after the March 2011 nuclear crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Anti-nuclear power rally in Tokyo

A rally against nuclear power plants is held in Tokyo on March 21, 2023, with about 4,700 people from across the nation marching in the Shibuya area for the annual event that started after the March 2011 nuclear crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Anti-nuclear power rally in Tokyo

A rally against nuclear power plants is held in Tokyo on March 21, 2023, with about 4,700 people from across the nation marching in the Shibuya area for the annual event that started after the March 2011 nuclear crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Nishikori runs with Fukushima children in event

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese tennis star Kei Nishikori runs with children from Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during an event in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2014.

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Tsunami-driven ships to be dismantled

NAMIE, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2014, shows a ship which has been unattended in the northeastern Japan town of Namie since washing up in the March 2011 tsunami disaster. The Environment Ministry has started dismantling 70 such ships in the nearby coastal areas to complete the works by the end of next March.

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Tsunami-driven ships to be dismantled

NAMIE, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2014, shows a ship which has been unattended in the northeastern Japan town of Namie since washing up in the March 2011 tsunami disaster. The Environment Ministry has started dismantling 70 such ships in the nearby coastal areas to complete the works by the end of next March.

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Disaster-hit students homebound after Sochi study tour

SOCHI, Russia - Japanese junior high school athletes from regions devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami gather at Sochi airport on Feb. 21, 2014, to return to Japan after a weeklong study tour of the Winter Olympics in the Russian resort town.

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Tetrapod robot to view places too risky for humans

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Yokohama on Nov. 21, 2012, shows Toshiba Corp.'s tetrapod robot climbing up stairs. Toshiba said the same day it has developed the tetrapod robot to inspect locations too risky for humans such as the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Comedian completes 9-day marathon across quake-hit area

IWAKI, Japan - Comedian Kampei Hazama (C) finishes his nine-day marathon at Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2012. Hazama ran around 460 kilometers across the three northeastern prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima that were hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in an effort to encourage those living there.

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Comedian completes 9-day marathon across quake-hit area

IWAKI, Japan - Comedian Kampei Hazama (C) is seen shortly after finishing his nine-day marathon at Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2012. Hazama ran around 460 kilometers across the three northeastern prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima that were hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in an effort to encourage those living there.

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London Games send-off ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Women's wrestling champion Saori Yoshida (L), Japan Olympic delegation Hinomaru flag-bearer, attaches a good-luck charm to her jacket during a send-off ceremony for the national team to the London Olympics, at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on July 21, 2012. To the right is javelin thrower Yukifumi Murakami (R), Japan Olympic team captain. They received good-luck charms made of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and made by children in disaster-stricken areas.

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Oi No. 4 reactor begins generating power

OI, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor (L) at the Oi nuclear power plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. in Fukui Prefecture on July 21, 2012. The No. 4 reactor started generating and transmitting electricity later in the day. The reactor is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (R).

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Abandoned animals in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 21, 2012, shows dogs that have been abandoned by their owners. The town remains nearly deserted as the government in April 2011 designated it and other municipalities within a 20-kilometer ring around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as a no-go zone. The plant's reactors suffered meltdowns after being struck by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, spewing massive amounts of radioactive materials into the air and sea.

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Steller sea lion back to Fukushima aquarium

CHIBA, Japan - A Steller sea lion called Fuku is hoisted in a cage by crane at Kamogawa Seaworld in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, on March 21, 2012, to be transported to Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. Fuku was evacuated to the Chiba aquarium after the March 2011 quake and tsunami, and is the last evacuee of the Fukushima aquarium to be sent home.

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'Recovery' boxed meal

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken March 21, 2012, in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, shows a boxed meal product, named ''Fukko (recovery) Soraben (boxed meal sold at airport).'' The meal, using ingredients grown in areas near Sendai airport, will be put on sale at the airport, hit by the March 2011 tsunami, on March 25, 2012.

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, gives a lecture on radiation during a local women's association meeting in Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2012. The 44-year-old scientist quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for his trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011.

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Onagawa soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a cemetery in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 21, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom).

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Japan campaign to attract tourists

TOKYO, Japan - Tourism minister Takeshi Maeda speaks in a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2012. Japan launched a special campaign the same day to attract foreign tourists through late April 2012 under the slogan ''Japan. Thank You,'' which is also meant to express gratitude for global support following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Quake-hit Sendai firm to join N.Y. trade fair

KYOTO, Japan - Kenichi Aizawa (L), president of T-shirt manufacturer Azoth Co. in Sendai, takes a look at a T-shirt in Kyoto on Jan. 21, 2012. Azoth, devastated by the March 2011 earthquake, will exhibit its products at a New York trade fair with help from Toshio Hara (C), president of textile dyeing firm Harasenko in Kyoto. Business partner Hara provided Aizawa with a line at his factory for free.

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Fixing disaster-hit Shinto shrine before New Year

SENDAI, Japan - Volunteer workers on Dec. 21, 2011, clean and repair the surroundings of the Koganeyama Shrine, a Shinto shrine on an island off the Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi Prefecture hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as well as by a typhoon, prior to the New Year. Many people in Japan customarily visit Shinto shrines on New Year's Day.

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Hasebe donates 45 mil. yen for children in Minamisanriku

SENDAI, Japan - Japanese footballer Makoto Hasebe (R), who currently plays for Wolfsburg in Germany, hands a soccer ball to Takahiro Ojima, the principal of a kindergarten in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2011. Hasebe has decided to donate 45 million yen to the Japan Committee for UNICEF for the reconstruction of the kindergarten damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and to support children affected by the disaster.

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'One-and-only' chair for babies in disaster-hit areas

SAPPORO, Japan - Noriyuki Nakao (L), associate professor of Tokai University, looks at chairs, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Nov. 21, 2011, which are to be given to babies born on March 11, 2011, in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, severely hit by the quake and tsunami disasters. A Hokkaido-based team announced the same day the project to present the ''one-and-only'' chairs, which bear each baby's name, their birthday ''March 11, 2011'' and a message ''Be tough toward the future.'' Nakao designed the chair.

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'One-and-only' chair for babies in disaster-hit areas

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2011, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, shows chairs which are to be given to babies born on March 11, 2011, in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, severely hit by the quake and tsunami disasters. A Hokkaido-based team announced the same day the project to present the ''one-and-only'' chairs, which bear each baby's name, their birthday ''March 11, 2011'' and a message ''Be tough toward the future.''

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Ex-Dentsu president Narita dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2009 shows former Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita. He died of pneumonia at the age of 82 at a hospital in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2011, the company said Nov. 21.

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Opening ceremony for extra Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (top) attends the opening ceremony of a 51-day extraordinary Diet session in the main hall of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2011. The session, from Oct. 20 to Dec. 9, 2011, will discuss a 12.10 trillion yen fiscal 2011 third extra budget to finance full-fledged reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Wine auction in France for Japan quake relief

PARIS, France - A wine auction is held at a hotel in Paris, France, on Sept. 21, 2011, to raise funds to support relief efforts in Japan's northeastern areas hit by the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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Fukushima students invited to Austria

VIENNA, Austria - High school students from Fukushima Prefecture attend a welcome reception held in Vienna on Aug. 3, 2011. The Rotary Club of Austria invited 21 high school students from the areas affected by the March earthquake and tsunami to spend about three weeks in the European country while staying with host families.

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Buddhist service at Phoenix Hall

KYOTO, Japan - Buddhist monks take part in a service for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan at the Phoenix Hall, a Japanese national treasure, at Byodoin temple in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. Around 100 young monks from western Japan took part in the event.

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Lady Gaga arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Popular American pop singer-songwriter Lady Gaga is pictured as she arrives at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 21, 2011. She is visiting Japan mainly to attend a charity music event, to be held June 25, for the victims of the March 11 killer earthquake and tsunami in the northeast.

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Lady Gaga arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Popular American pop singer-songwriter Lady Gaga (far L) responds to cheers from some 200 avid fans who waited for her arrival at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 21, 2011. She is visiting Japan mainly to attend a charity music event, to be held June 25, for the victims of the March 11 killer earthquake and tsunami in the northeast.

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Chant at Phoenix Hall

KYOTO, Japan - Buddhist monks walk toward the Phoenix Hall, a Japanese national treasure, at Byodoin temple in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, on June 21, 2011, for a chant to mourn for people killed in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan and to pray for the reconstruction of the region. Around 100 younger monks from western Japan took part in the event.

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Disaster-hit cemetery in March and June

ONAGAWA, Japan - Combined photo shows a cemetery in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture on March 21, 2011 (top frame), with grave stones toppled and a train left by the March 11 tsunami, and the same cemetery on June 3, 2011 (bottom frame).

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Disaster relief event in Peru

LIMA, Peru - Japanese-Peruvians perform in a musical during an event in Lima, Peru, on May 21, 2011, to support Japanese areas hit by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.

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Chinese Premier Wen visits disaster-hit Fukushima

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks about Mitsuru Sato, a Japanese man who helped evacuate 20 Chinese trainees before being killed in the March 11 tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, during his visit to the disaster-hit city of Natori in the prefecture on May 21, 2011. Wen praised Sato for helping others regardless of nationality.

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S. Korean president speaks to disaster victims in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak shakes hands with an evacuee on May 21, 2011, outside the prefectural Azuma gymnasium in the city of Fukushima, which is being used as a shelter for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Fukushima prior to their trilateral summit meeting in Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president speaks to disaster victims in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (C) speaks with evacuees at the prefectural Azuma gymnasium in the city of Fukushima on May 21, 2011, which is being used as a shelter for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Lee visited Fukushima prior to a trilateral summit meeting in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president speaks to disaster victims in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (4th from L) speaks with evacuees on May 21, 2011, at the prefectural Azuma gymnasium in the city of Fukushima, which is being used as a shelter for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Fukushima prior to their trilateral summit meeting in Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) offers words of encouragement to a survivor of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Chinese premier Wen meets Japan's disaster survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) speaks to survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak holds a girl at an evacuation center for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)